The Holiday Show is Here!

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SparkleBlob and Automata present:

SparkleBlob’s Doublewide Roadside Holiday Snowflake Show! 

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Join Silverlake’s most well-adjusted family as they spend their holiday vacation in the rustic, arid climate of the California desert, where the tumbleweeds tumble, and murmurs on the wind blow cool wind through your hair. Young Judy Haversham would love to be just about anywhere else, and is not in the mood for a journey encompassing a curious mixture of reality and imagination, which is, of course, just fine.

SparkleBlob’s 6th annual Holiday Puppet Show delivers expressly to you a hilarious and somewhat existential musical excursion through time and space that will warm your heart into happy holiday goop! Presented at Automata in exciting and scenic Chinatown, the show will once again include before and after rides on the famed ‘trike’ plus delicious pre and after show treats and libations. Original and reproductions of “Doublewide Roadside Show Art” will be available for purchase. Written by the superbly talented Julianna (JP) Parr and Shannon Gallagher and directed by JP, the show will also feature puppets of original design, a rockin’ cast and The DingleBell Hollies (live band), and surprises galore! Don’t miss the fun–adults and kids alike will love the show!

Dates and Times:

OPENING NIGHT– THURS Dec.12th –8pm
FRI Dec. 13th– 8pm
SAT Dec. 14th — 7pm and 9pm
SUN Dec. 15th — 2pm and 7pm

THURS Dec. 19th — 8pm
FRI Dec. 20th — 8pm
SAT Dec. 21st– 7pm and 9pm
SUN Dec. 22nd– 2pm and 7pm

Tickets:
General Admission: $15.00
Students: $12.00
Automata Members: $12
Under 3: FREE**

** Sunday matinees are children & family friendly! (To tell you the truth, ALL of our shows are family friendly, but we can be a bit sassier at night. Nothing dirty or naughty, just sassy… like Bullwinkle or the Johnny Carson Show.)

Location:
Automata
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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The Desert Will Melt Your Brain

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How do you write a SparkleBlob Holiday Show Script? It takes a very special set of circumstances.

Shannon Gallagher and I (Julianna Parr) get in her reddish orange air-conditioned Honda Element. As the familiar highways become unfamiliar, and the caffeine does its job, the unraveling of ideas fuels the trip. We careen through the southland until the buildings give way to rock piles, surroundings become more sparse, the panorama elevates in temperature and terrain. Clues begin to show themselves, while other inclinations become ever more elusive.

This is how we write the script.

I can tell you it’s nothing fancy, and there are a lot of snacks, and the desert absolutely lives up to its reputation in June. We asked the T-Rex in Cabazon a bunch of questions, even went up inside the big thing’s head and gazed at the 10 from afar, a good view of the brontosaurus giftshop notwithstanding. Glorious gleaming white turbines twirled as the tiny car with our brains in it it zoomed past the arid tell-all of rocky distant worlds. What inspired us?

  • Lenticular renditions of Native Americans juxtaposed with wolves, horses and big skies
  • Souvenir shops sporting signs saying stuff like “God loves you, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot.”
  • Mannequins dressed like cave people who appeared to be jealous of each other’s hairstyles.
  • Creationist dinosaur exhibits showing lambs and velociraptors as friends
  • Plaques about the San Andreas Fault
  • A disappointing, but not totally deplorable plate of spaghetti
  • Rustic accents
  • Twinkling quiet and a deep yellow half moon brooding over the horizon
  • Hazy unmistakable views of the Salton Sea

Yep, a SparkleBlob script unrolled itself across our minds, thanks to all those Joshua Trees pointing the way. And all I can tell you is that all will be revealed come December.

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